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No, not at all. I got in touch with the Labor Council and offered them $100 toward expenses so that they could forgo any public funding to support their event. It doesn't matter anyhow. The Labor Council buckled under the pressure from Wausau's mayor, so it's a moot point. Enemies of labor will be provided a forum at the event.

I do commend you for standing behind your beleifs, however errant they may be!!

if this coming Mondays Labor Day observance is such a monumental National "thing" then riddle me this would you? Why is it only the state and federal and government offices with their workers are closed? And the Banks and their workers, The post office and the school teachers??? Anyone with feet in a ditch or hands on a brick or head in an oven will still be on the job. It has become a day that these master slackers lounge yet again while the true backbone keeps on keeping on. A misused day from an outdated movement that has gone so far from it's original mission it is laughable.

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"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold

"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin

if this coming Mondays Labor Day observance is such a monumental National "thing" then riddle me this would you? Why is it only the state and federal and government offices with their workers are closed? And the Banks and their workers, The post office and the school teachers??? Anyone with feet in a ditch or hands on a brick or head in an oven will still be on the job. It has become a day that these master slackers lounge yet again while the true backbone keeps on keeping on. A misused day from an outdated movement that has gone so far from it's original mission it is laughable.

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I don't know what you're talking about. I've been in the private sector for almost 30 years. Have not worked a Labor Day in my life. And for the record, I've never been in a union. Engineers are not unionized.

"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48

Like all holidays in the USA some people work, some have the day off. It varies, but never does the world come to a screeching halt. To the contrary, holidays are now all about the commercial aspect. Labor day sales, Halloween costumes and candy, Black friday, before and after Christmas sales, New years sales, Presidents day sales, then valentine hype, Easter specials, Memorial day door-busters, 4th of July blowouts. Even Veterans day sadly.

One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift

Like all holidays in the USA some people work, some have the day off. It varies, but never does the world come to a screeching halt. To the contrary, holidays are now all about the commercial aspect. Labor day sales, Halloween costumes and candy, Black friday, before and after Christmas sales, New years sales, Presidents day sales, then valentine hype, Easter specials, Memorial day door-busters, 4th of July blowouts. Even Veterans day sadly.

if this coming Mondays Labor Day observance is such a monumental National "thing" then riddle me this would you? Why is it only the state and federal and government offices with their employees are closed? And the Banks and their employees, The post office and the school teachers??? Anyone with feet in a ditch or hands on a brick or head in an oven will still be on the job. It has become a day that these master slackers lounge yet again while the true backbone keeps on keeping on. A misused day from an outdated movement that has gone so far from it's original mission it is laughable..

Ken = well stated - just a minor correction - that they work is an assumption

Originally Posted by Buzz

I don't know what you're talking about. I've been in the private sector for almost 30 years. Have not worked a Labor Day in my life. And for the record, I've never been in a union. Engineers are notunionized.

You need to tell the folks in SPEEA that . Longest White Collar strike in the history of the labor movement. Management found out they could not do without their engineers .